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Meeting minutes for Consolidated Student Senate University of Nevada, Las Vegas, March 3, 1997
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Archival Collection
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Looking south down Civic Center Drive in North Las Vegas, Nevada: digital photograph
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Archival Collection
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From the UNLV University Libraries Photographs of the Development of the Las Vegas Valley, Nevada (PH-00394). Part of the collection documents the entire 19 mile length of the north/south Eastern Avenue / Civic Center Drive alignment. This photograph was captured in the section of Civic Center Drive between Alexander Road and Cheyenne Avenue.
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Photograph North Las Vegas Women of the Moose officers, June 15, 1972
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Archival Collection
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Photograph of North Las Vegas Women's Club luncheon, September 1964
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Archival Collection
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Photograph of a shack house in West Las Vegas, located at 711 Van Buren Avenue, Las Vegas, Nevada, October, 1957
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Archival Collection
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Viola Johnson oral history interview
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Oral history interview with Viola Johnson conducted by Claytee D. White on March 03, 1996 for the Women's Research Institute of Nevada (WRIN) Las Vegas Women Oral History Project. Johnson discusses leaving Fordyce, Arkansas in 1942 to join her parents in Las Vegas, Nevada where her first home was a tent. Johnson goes on to discuss life with her parents in Las Vegas including their work and church activities. Johnson also describes her work at the Flamingo Hilton and Sands Hotel and Casino as a maid, and at the Riviera Hotel and Casino making sandwiches. Finally, Johnson talks about labor conditions and the Culinary Union during the early years of the Las Vegas Strip casino development.
Archival Collection
Transcript of an Interview with Marcia Washington by Claytee D. White, February 14 and March 14, 2013
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Archival Collection
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Marcia moved to Las vegas in 1966 as a young teen; became first African American on the State Board of Education (2000-2008)
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Transcript of interview with Hannah Brown by Claytee D. White, September 27, 2012
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Archival Collection
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Growing up in the Westside community, worked in the Sight N Sound Record Store. Brown spoke of entertainers in the neighborhood and their influence on community children. Second portion of interview filmed at PBS.
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Transcript of interview with Q.B Bush by Claytee D. White, May 15, 2007
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Archival Collection
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Q.B. was one of the first black dealers on the LV Strip. Talks of the Economic Opportunity Board, the LV black experience and shared photo collection.
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